# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140 "2020-06-22T07:01:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 370
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7412 "2021-09-26T00:36:20Z")
Aaron Rupar is doing a running commentary of Trump’s Georgia rally (going on tonight): [https://twitter.com/atrupar?lang=en](https://twitter.com/atrupar?lang=en) But in re Stupid Republican Idea news, we have Newsmax anchors selling, hard, the idea that GA Governor Brian Kemp is solely responsible for Biden winning the Presidency: > Stochastic terrorism: your local cable company is a Proud Sponsor!!! ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7413 "2021-09-26T06:57:30Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > While non-recreational outrage at the cost is certainly warranted, a large part (I’m not up to researching the details, if such figures are even available) came from well-heeled Trump supporters. A big chunk of expense in that audit was the decertification of all the voting equipment that will now need to be replaced. (What, they can’t just inspect the hardware and wipe and re-program the firmware?) Who will pay for that? Should be the CyNinjas, I sez. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7414 "2021-09-26T07:11:06Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Democrat [sic] plot to take over the country! Must be one of those “stolen election” shitheads. [https://news.yahoo.com/texas-lt-gov-dan-patricks-232000876.html](https://news.yahoo.com/texas-lt-gov-dan-patricks-232000876.html) ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7415 "2021-09-26T12:20:45Z")
So, I go to that link and that one paragraph is all there is. I want details! Specifically, do you still get the million dollars if you have evidence of _Republican_ voter fraud that results in a conviction? ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7416 "2021-09-26T12:37:08Z")
The Lt Governor of PA has already asked that > **[Pa. Lt. Gov. John Fetterman pesters Texas counterpart to pay $3 million for...](https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/12/pa-lt-gov-takes-to-twitter-asking-texas-counterpart-to-pay-3-million-for-the-states-3-voter-fraud-cases.html)** > > Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick offered up to $1 million for information leading to an arrest and conviction for voter fraud. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7417 "2021-09-26T12:38:10Z")
Nope. John Fetterman, the Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania, sent Patrick proof of two separate individuals who committed voter fraud in PA, and he didn’t get a dime. Yeah, they were Republicans. One tried to cast a vote for his dead by the election day father, because “that’s how he would have voted,” and the other tried to steal his Biden-supporting son’s vote for Trump. There may have been a couple other cases, but it was a clean election in PA despite the Republican legislature’s attempts to paint it as unsafe. ETA: Damnit, @Andy_L! ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7418 "2021-09-26T14:37:06Z")
Yeah, but do you know how much it costs to insert the bamboo chips that change votes to Biden? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7419 "2021-09-26T18:33:32Z")
> **[Marjorie Taylor Greene: Democrats are using U.S. corporations to push communism](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/26/2054509/-Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-Democrats-are-using-U-S-corporations-to-push-communism)** > > We’re now at a point in our history where you can say literally anything about Democrats, and as long as it at least sounds sinister it will be eagerly embraced by the Trumpian troglodytes like a fully vetted, lifesaving vaccine that can save... > “Let’s talk about who the Democrats really are. They’re communists, and they’re forcing their communism through the corporations, the big corporations…” ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7420 "2021-09-26T19:23:15Z")
WTF is that woman’s PROBLEM?? 🤯 ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7421 "2021-09-26T19:26:29Z")
She’s raising lots and lots of money – which she apparently doesn’t see as a PROBLEM. ☠ You already know this and I’m sure your question was rhetorical, but whenever you’re casting about for a motive, look no further than the grift. It will always be the answer. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7422 "2021-09-26T19:51:04Z")
I once met someone that was convinced that Michael Bloomberg was a radical socialist, and they could not be convinced otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7423 "2021-09-26T20:13:48Z")
“Socialist” today is like the “Communist” label during the Cold War – someone doing something they don’t like. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7424 "2021-09-26T21:42:12Z")
A while ago one of my Facebook “friends” who’s a raging Trumpite posted something about how the Democrats are the modern-day Nazi party. Apparently they are anti-Semites, anti-2nd Amendment, pre-hate, and pro-eugenics. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7425 "2021-09-26T22:23:32Z")
“Forcing communism through corporations” uh-huh that always works Conservatives are just making it more and more clear that they (or at least the constituencies that they’re attempting to hornswoggle) simply have no idea what either communism or corporations actually are. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7426 "2021-09-26T22:27:15Z")
I know! That’s the line that stood out to me…_corporations_ are communistic now. 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7427 "2021-09-26T22:34:36Z")
Corporations are so well known for allowing workers to control the means of production, after all. Not to mention their renowned rejection of private ownership and hierarchical relations between capital and labor. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7428 "2021-09-26T23:22:54Z")
Ha! Yes. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7429 "2021-09-26T23:26:28Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > have no idea what either communism or corporations actually are Well, corporations are people, and communists are people, so the math is actually pretty easy… ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7430 "2021-09-26T23:33:18Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > WTF is that woman’s PROBLEM?? 🤯 Among others, vocabulary issues if she thinks that for-profit corporations are a feature of communism. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7431 "2021-09-27T00:33:57Z")
To be completely fair, one could argue that corporations are anti-capitalist, in the strictest interpretation of “capitalism”. In the original conceptualization and application, a corporation was a transitory pooling of resources that allowed a major task to be accomplished, a task such was well above and beyond the capabilities of the individual parties involved, after which, on completion of the chartered objective, the corporation was dissolved. In a sense, the primal type of corporation might be seen as in apposition to the competitive ethos of competition, which, in theory, underlies capitalist dogma, at least as we understand it. When that is added to the concept of persistent corporations, one can, in theory, perceive them as being in significant conflict with glibertatarian/capitalist ideals. However, to suggest that Ms. Wharrgarbl’s shelled-sunflower-seed-sized gray matter could possibly be capable of reasoning on that level is patently absurd. Clearly she is aware of widespread distrust/animosity toward corporate misbehavior and is attempting to leverage those feeling by tacking wharrgarbl on top of it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=369) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=371)